2024 United States presidential election in Nevada

2024 United States presidential election in Nevada

← 2020 November 5, 2024 2028 →
Turnout72.84%[1] (Decrease 5.38%)
 
Nominee Donald Trump Kamala Harris
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Florida California
Running mate JD Vance Tim Walz
Electoral vote 6 0
Popular vote 751,205 705,197
Percentage 50.59% 47.49%


President before election

Joe Biden
Democratic

Elected President

Donald Trump
Republican

The 2024 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, participated. Nevada voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Nevada has six electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census, in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.[2]

Despite Trump, who was running under the Republican banner a third consecutive time, not carrying Nevada in either of his past two presidential campaigns, polling in the state showed Trump in a strong position to win the state against Biden, with Trump leading Biden in all major polls on Nevada's voting intention from October 2023 until Biden's withdrawal in July 2024. The Silver State also elected a Republican governor in 2022. However, Kamala Harris, from neighboring California, had polled somewhat better since becoming the Democratic nominee. The state was rated as a tossup by nearly all major news organizations.[3]

Despite more competitive polling after Harris entered the race, Trump won Nevada, defeating Harris by over three percentage points and becoming the first Republican to win the state since George W. Bush in 2004. Trump's gains with Latino and Filipino voters were crucial to him flipping the state,[4][5] and his 751,205 votes set a new record for votes cast for any candidate in state history.

Nevada was the only state to vote for Trump in 2024 after failing to back him in either of his two previous runs, and the only state that voted differently from 2016 to 2024 (though Nebraska's second congressional district, with one electoral vote, voted for Trump in 2016 and for Harris in 2024). Never before in American history have two presidential elections differed by only a single state, with the closest previous instance coming between 1884 and 1888, when only New York and Indiana changed their vote, and more recently between 2008 and 2012, when only North Carolina and again Indiana changed their vote.[6] This is also the first time in the state's history that it voted Republican while nearby Colorado voted Democratic. This was also the first presidential election in which Clark County cast over a million votes.

  1. ^ "Voter Turnout Statistics". Nevada Secretary of State.
  2. ^ Wang, Hansi; Jin, Connie; Levitt, Zach (April 26, 2021). "Here's How The 1st 2020 Census Results Changed Electoral College, House Seats". NPR. Archived from the original on August 19, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
  3. ^ "Nevada Polls". June 28, 2018.
  4. ^ King, John (September 17, 2024). "Economic worries boost Trump's Hispanic support in battleground Nevada". CNN. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
  5. ^ Subramanian, Sribala (December 11, 2024). "Did Filipino-Americans Help Trump Win Nevada?". The Diplomat. Retrieved January 1, 2025.
  6. ^ "Historical U.S. Presidential Elections 1789-2024 - 270toWin". 270toWin.com. Retrieved March 15, 2025.

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